About Patrick Mason

Patrick Mason is an Irish director, teacher and writer. He lives in Dublin. He is currently a freelance director of theatre and opera, and an adjunct professor in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin.

For over twenty years Patrick Mason has been an important figure in Irish theatre. From 1992 to 1999 he was artistic director of the Irish National Theatre where he achieved a high degree of stability in a troubled institution, and gained international recognition for his productions of new plays…. All his work manifests a strong sense of symbolism appropriate for his subsequent work as a director of opera.